Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Melbourne” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melbourne” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Melbourne” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Melbourne” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Melbourne” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Melbourne” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Melbourne” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melbourne” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 12 0.000012145 12 -100%
1913 26 0.000022865 26 -100%
1914 25 0.000017651 25 -100%
1915 34 0.000018555 34 -100%
1916 31 0.000016026 31 -100%
1917 32 0.000015946 32 -100%
1918 33 0.0000152 33 -100%
1919 29 0.000013742 29 -100%
1920 42 0.000018562 42 -100%
1921 39 0.000016706 39 -100%
1922 44 0.000019221 44 -100%
1923 27 0.000011726 27 -100%
1924 28 0.000011757 28 -100%
1925 28 0.000012 28 -100%
1926 33 0.000014373 33 -100%
1927 30 0.000012935 30 -100%
1928 42 0.000018576 42 -100%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 -100%
1930 25 0.000011245 25 -100%
1931 20 0.000009504 20 -100%
1932 28 0.000013262 28 -100%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 -100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 -100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 -100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 -100%
1937 17 0.000007979 17 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 -100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 -100%
1943 14 0.00000496 14 -100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 -100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 -100%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 -100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 -100%
1948 14 0.000004055 14 -100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 -100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%

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